I dokumentärfilmen Strongman får vi möta en åldrande strongmanuppträdare och hans familj. Kan Stanley ”Stanless Steel” Pleskun hålla liv i sin karriär? Kan hans mentala styrka hjälpa hans familj? Filmen vann kategorin Bästa Dokumentär vid indiefilmfestivalen Slamdance 2009.
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Stanless Steel is a very strong man. He can leg press a 10,000 lb dump truck, bend a penny between two fingers, bend a horseshoe with his bare hands and, with his bare fist, drive a nail through a board and two New Jersey license plates. But Stanless Steel’s audiences are getting smaller and he is getting older.
For this cinema vérité documentary, Zachary Levy spent time over several years with Stanless and his family. The result is a moving and sometimes unsettling story about a man who cannot dare lose faith himself for fear of facing the failure that surrounds him.
Stanley ”Stanless Steel” Pleskuns hemsida kommer att uppdateras inom kort. Några av Stanleys strongmanuppträdanden då han var på topp kan ses på hans youtubekanal. New Orleans Film Society presenterade filmen på detta vis:
One of the most poignant and hauntingly original American documentaries in years, Strongman tells the up-close-and-personal story of Stanley ”Stanless Steel” Pleskun, who can lift dump trucks and bend pennies with his bare hands, but who struggles to transcend his chaotic New Jersey home life and the toll of his slowly-but-surely advancing age.
Years in the making and assembled with rare skill and intelligence, Strongman is tender and tough, comic and tragic, simple and endlessly rich – a Fellini-esque testament (in the best sense) to the unlimited possibilities of independent, nonfiction filmmaking and the most hypnotic example of the Maysles-style ”direct cinema” tradition in years.
